“Negation in Fragments A, B and C of the Hunter Manuscript of The Romaunt of the Rose”
Bibliographical details
Iyeiri, Yoko. 2010. “Negation in Fragments A, B and C of the Hunter Manuscript of The Romaunt of the Rose“, in Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto, ed. Merja Kytö, John Scahill & Harumi Tanabe, pp. 79-101. Bern: Peter Lang.
This paper approaches the authorship of the Middle English translation of The Romaunt of the Rose, which comprises Fragment A, B, and C from syntactic perspectives, with a focus on negative constructions. The results include the following findings: Fragment A is the most conservative and it is Chaucerian; Fragment B is the most progressive; and Fragment C often shows intermediate positions between A and B, but is more similar to B linguistically than A.
The following YouTube video gives a brief summary of this paper.
Related publication(s)
- Iyeiri, Yoko. 2010. “Negation in Different Versions of Chaucer’s Boece: Syntactic Variants and Editing the Text”. English Studies 91: 826-837.
